27 May 06

What I've learnt

I’ve been now (b)logging for, ooh, nearly 4 days now and it’s been quite an interesting lesson. Here’s what I’ve learnt:

• Blogging isn’t as scary as it seems. I first thought it was going to be diving into the deep end, and that I needed to have perfect articles from the start – but in fact, no one reads them, so they can be terrible and no one will care!
• Despite no one reading my pretensiously named ‘log’, the stats for the site have risen considerably, which either means that some people are actually reading it or I’ve been checking the site every ten seconds. It’s probably the latter.
• I don’t find blogging a chore (yet). I was expecting to not enjoy it after four days, and struggle to find topics to whinge about. Nope! I’ve got plenty of things I want to moan about, all kept in a list in my head, and I’m sure I will inflict them on you soon.
• I find moaning about things fun. Although this is a very British trait anyway, I think that being from a particularly moany family from Manchester has helped me accept that whingeing about anything and everything is part of my life. And once you come out of the whingeing closet, you begin to enjoy it. Oh yes.
• My log is still more interesting than 60% of the blogs out there. There’s people out there who blog about things like hardcore programming, and they manage to make it really dry and dull. You think these people would be a bit more excitable about the topic, considering that’s what they’re interested in! I’d rather blog about nothing in particular interestingly than blog about something uninterestingly (which is what I’m trying to do).
• I would recommend blogging to anyone interested in starting a blog. I considered the idea for a long time, but kept putting it off, mainly due to fear of looking stupid on my own site, and fear of running out of things to say. Mike has a t-shirt with ‘I’m Blogging This’ and once you start blogging, you begin to think like that. I’ve gone from thinking “ooh, isn’t that interesting?” to “ooh, I could write about that in my blog”. Which is a bit sad really, isn’t it?
• Actually scrap that last point. I wouldn’t recommend blogging to anyone. It changes your way of thinking. It makes you a loser. Really.

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